Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1887-12-26

bridal quadrllle. dancing IN the goou
j old style of fifty years ago.
u can't have wedding every day"
said Uncle Nahum breathlessly, as he
cut last pigeon wing, land mean
+ to make the most of it,.
Dishonesty Begins at Home
Tn crying sin of the day is dis
honesty. One hears so much of it
/ in public life; but as we have said
before, there is too much of it alto
gether in private life. And its cause
is to be found in the want of self
control in the indulgence of tastes
and appetites. Reckless, eXtrava-
CANT living is at the bottom of it all.
If this living had any true foundation
in any hearty desire for any desirable
thing, there would be more hope of
I amendment. But when one comes
to see what things illgotten gains
are spent upon, the outlook is a sad
one. Dress, display, amusement,
costly things bought just because
they are costly; wealth won evilly
merely that it may be wasted foolish
ly; these are signs of a time which
is not a pleasant thing to contem-
plate. If a man loves any one thing,
say rare books, or pictures, or objects
of art of any kind, or music, or sci
ence, so well that for the sake of one
thing in which he would be rich, he
is willing to be poor in everything
else, no matter though his choice be
an unwise one according to the best
standards of choice, he will yet have
a motive which will help to keep him
upright. But for those who love
none of these things, but simply de-
sire them because it is the habit of
the time because like pampered
children they must needs cry for
whatsoever they see just out of their
reach, for them is needed the whole
some self discipline which will teach
them to let alone whatever il not
theirs.
And the beginning of this self
discipline is in the home. Parents
must teach their boys and girls the
great lesson of doing without what
ever cannot be fitly theirs. There
need be no niggardIy restraint, but
in some way the first lesson for
childhood should be that of earning
its pleasures. To get whatever it
Graves rs soon as it asks for it is the
worst training a child can have.
QUEER USES OF ELECTRICITY. -
One of Bridgeport's letter carriers,
whose duties require him to distrib-
ute the mail over his route after
dark, has adopted the novel practice
of wearing an electric scarf pin.
When desirous of looking at the
address of an envelope in the dark,
! heeholds it up before his face and
switches on the electrici& concealed
in his pocket. His scatf pm flashes
out a one-candle power electric light.
John Buckley, of Meriden, caught
a snafisng turse and took if to the
telephone sqiice where he works.
He thought ,fhat he would ksl the
animal by Y 4ctricity, and so Rpt the
end of a wirA in front of it, add tire
| 4uale snapped it AID Ikld on. cThep
Buckley paf snOtfS wrEnder to-
she'll and Turned on tie entire cleo
tric carrent-5f the office. The turtle
shut hle:sam&tighter and closed his
t~sbell, seAas.Gve minutes vtg appar-
emily asrssd as julius ca. but
the fext,gorning he was valking
arousl tie office quite hearth 1t
had received an electric shoS pow
erful eno'Eh to kill man.
/ "
There's a mean man in Virginia
who swns farm and he hay 4nRgh-
bgr loi I'VE -sbau.caFs Bqck @.r.
IShg sincs Buck a5piisa' to closeiist
forth. loan Of s4sug-handled shovel
g. e4e ssk4s ~@S-s, zisssie.
T@41 -;-r7, - r. - -, F., -. !, -
: .-s~sz as--s's 90 -...s. .tIel..-s1cir, i
Ill / wssl@ ma@~ to stop letting
b4aawausss a3l nj have to refuse ydu."
Il Buck wdlt away, aAl u a few
days Closedst game oveso get Back's
I gun torshoet q beef.
"Wal, Dls man." replied Buck,
''you see~t4e neighbors ihave been
borrowing my tools and sot bringing
them back, till ] find that I've got to
stop letting them 20, and I'll have to
refuse yog, but that won't make any
diference1 You can just shoot that
bssSs with sour long-handIed shovel" !"
The neighbors don't speak now,
it isn't Bucks fault. !.
sssYo hav4msltioned several tisles
! fdaGng the evening, observed one Of
kth9. audience to a lecturer, "the word
! nefiphrasis. .lYsuId yop kledly in
form me Of Its preeik mGnings :"
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